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I-witness
''i-Witness'', formerly ''i-Witness: The GMA Documentaries'' is a Philippine television documentary show broadcast by GMA Network and GMA News TV. Originally hosted by Vicky Morales, Luchi Cruz-Valdes, Mike Enriquez, Cheche Lazaro and Jessica Soho, it premiered on January 18, 1999. It is the longest-running documentary program in Philippine television. The show concluded on GMA Network on April 29, 2020. The show moved to GMA News TV on August 14, 2020 on the network's Power Block line up. The show returned to GMA Network on January 16, 2021 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up. Sandra Aguinaldo, Kara David, Howie Severino and Atom Araullo currently serve as the hosts. The series is streaming online on YouTube. Hosts * Kara David * Howie Severino * Sandra Aguinaldo * Atom Araullo Former hosts * Vicky Morales (1999–2004) * Luchi Cruz-Valdes (1999–2002) * Mike Enriquez (1999–2000) * Cheche Lazaro (1999–2004) * Jessica Soho (1999–2004) * Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Aguinaldo
Sandra Aguinaldo (born April 29, 1975) is a Filipina television news anchor journalist, writer and documentarian. She is best known as one of the news reporters of '' 24 Oras'' and one of the hosts of '' I-Witness''. In 2015, Aguinaldo together with her co-hosts in ''I-Witness'' won as the Best Documentary Program Hosts during the 29th PMPC Star Awards for Television. Early life Aguinaldo is the only child of Felipe, her father who is an engineer, and Irene, her mother who died when she was four years old. She grew up at Angono, Rizal and she spent her childhood liking different kinds of art. She developed her writing skills in high school and decided to take up journalism at University of Santo Tomas (UST) where she graduated. In 1993, she became the editor-in-chief of ''The Flame'', UST Faculty of Arts and Letters' official student journal. Career After Aguinaldo graduated from college, she became a copywriter at an advertising firm. In 1996, she entered the broadcast ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kara David
Kara Patria Constantino David-Cancio (born September 12, 1973) is a Filipino journalist, host, professor, and educational administrator. She is known because of investigative and multi-awarded documentaries in '' i-Witness''. These documentaries are "Bitay, “Selda Inosente”, "Buto't Balat", and ''Ambulansiyang de Paa''. She is the previous anchor of ''News to Go'' as well as a host and writer for '' i-Witness'' at GMA Network. She became the host of Powerhouse and is currently the host of '' Brigada'' and ''Pinas Sarap''. In addition, she is a professor at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. She has a ''TikTok'' account and ''YouTube'' channel to share her knowledge in Journalism and other things. She is the founder and president of Project Malasakit, a foundation that helps the people she has featured in her documentaries. David was the only woman named in 2007's Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) award. In 2010, she was awarded the Outstanding Women in the Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Soho
Maria Jessica Aspiras Soho (; born March 27, 1964) is a Filipino broadcast journalist known as the host of the news magazine program ''Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho'' (2004present) on GMA Network. She formerly anchored the newscast ''State of the Nation with Jessica Soho'' on GMA News TV from 2011 to 2021. Soho is a multi-awarded journalist. In 1998, Soho became the first Filipino to win the British Fleet Street Award for Journalism. In 1999, Soho and the '' I-Witness'' team received the Philippines' first Peabody Award for producing the "Kidneys for Sale" and "Kamao" documentaries. Soho's story of a hostage crisis in Cagayan Valley made her the first Filipino to win in the New York Film Festival. Early life Maria Jessica Aspiras Soho was born in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines, on March 27, 1964. Her parents are Abelardo Soho, a government employee, and Maura Aspiras, an agriculturist. Soho's grandmothers, Sixta "Apo Ittang" Aspiras and Concepción "Cion" Soho, influenced h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howie Severino
Horacio "Howie" Gorospe Severino (born July 18, 1961) is a Filipino broadcast journalist, anchor, host, documentarist and podcaster who is currently working in GMA Network. He is best known for his work with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, the Probe Team, and I-Witness. He has worked in print, television, and online media. Background Education He has said he wanted to be a journalist ever since he was in fifth grade. He graduated from Tufts University in Massachusetts with a History degree, '' magna cum laude'', and received his master's degree from University of Sussex in the United Kingdom in Environment, Development, and Policy. As a college student in Boston in the early 1980s, he got to know Benigno Aquino Jr., then in exile. After Aquino's assassination in 1983, Severino returned home to teach at his alma mater Ateneo de Manila High School, and join the anti-Marcos movement. He was arrested while taking pictures of a police dispersal of a student barr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffy Tima
Rufino Dompao Tima Jr. (born January 7, 1975), popularly known as Raffy Tima (), is a Filipino journalist, producer and presenter. He is currently working in GMA Network and its affiliate, GMA News TV (now GTV), he spanned over 23 years since the working of his current network. Early life Raffy Tima was born as Rufino Dompao Tima Jr. on January 7, 1975, in Tabuk, Kalinga. He moved in Pasig and Quezon City for focused on news television after graduated in college. He finished the secondary education in San Marcelino High School, and his tertiary education in UP Diliman from 1st year to 2nd year, but he transferred to Trinity University of Asia from 3rd year until his graduation, with Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication. Career Before his joining in IBC and GMA News, he was a voice-over of Philippine variety show, '' That's Entertainment''. Tima was one of GMA Network's main reporter during the 2000 to 2004 series of kidnappings by the Abu Sayyaf Group, an Islamic extremis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GMA News And Public Affairs
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs (formerly known as ''RBS News Department'', ''GMA Radio-Television News'' and ''GMA Rainbow Satellite News''; and commonly GMA (Integrated) News) is the news division of the GMA Network Inc. The division produces news, public affairs, infotainment, and lately, sports and entertainment programs for free-to-air TV channels ( GMA Network and GTV), national radio station ( Super Radyo DZBB 594) owned and affiliated regional television and radio stations in the Philippines, and international TV channels (GMA Pinoy TV, GMA Life TV and GMA News TV International). History Public affairs division GMA's Public Affairs division was established in 1987 when Tina Monzon-Palma, then head of GMA News, recognized that a 30-minute newscast was not adequate and sufficient to inform the general Filipino public on what is happening to the recently established Aquino government after the historic People Power Revolution in February 1986. The public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Mayrina
Ivan Ramesis Perez Mayrina (born December 23, 1976) is a Filipino broadcaster, journalist, reporter and news anchor. He is currently working in GMA Network. Early life Mayrina was hailed from Angeles City and is currently living in Quezon City, after graduating in UP Diliman, he focused on his family life. He finished the secondary education at high school in Pampanga, his first tertiary education in Holy Angel University and graduated of broadcasting, and second tertiary education in University of the Philippines Diliman, with Bachelor of Arts in Communication Research at the College of Mass Communication and graduated in April 1997. Prior to his work in GMA Network, he was once a training officer at Ayala Life Insurance, Inc. in 1997. Career He started his broadcasting career at GMA Network in 2000 with other known news personalities like Rhea Santos. He is best known for being a host of the GMA News and Public Affairs shows '' 100% Pinoy'' (2006–07) and '' Pinoy Abroad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariz Umali
Marie Grace Michelle Bade Umali-Tima (born March 4, 1979), widely known as Mariz Umali (), is a Filipina television news anchor and journalist. She is known for being the main newscaster of the weekend edition of GMA News TV's ''Balitanghali'' (first aired in Q in 2010 and she is with former co-anchor Jun Veneracion until 2019). She finished broadcast communications course at the University of the Philippines Diliman but she started as a pharmacy student. She started to work at GMA Network as a researcher and producer of news content for the 2001 Philippine general elections. Besides ''Balintanghali'', she also appeared as host or documentarian in other television shows such as '' I-Witness'', '' Out of Control'' and '' Born to Be Wild''. She also appears as one of the host of the '' Unang Hirit'', GMA Network's morning show Early life Umali wanted to be a doctor, thus, she enrolled in a course related to medicine, which is pharmacy but she later transferred to broadcast commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Taruc
Jose R. Taruc III () is a Filipino journalist and former television news reporter and presenter for GMA Network. Together with Jessica Soho, he won a George Foster Peabody award for his documentary produced for ''Brigada Siete''. In 2019, he moved to One News on airing his program Ride PH (also airing at One PH). Background Taruc is the eldest of four children of veteran journalist Joe Taruc and a graduate of broadcasting degree from Centro Escolar University. He married June, a dentist, and the couple has a son named Luis and daughter named Sofia Gabriela. The family lives in Quezon City. Career Brigada Siete In 1994, Taruc worked as a researcher and production assistant for ''Brigada Siete'', an investigative TV show in GMA Network. He made his first news report on a rupture of Mount Parker's crater in South Cotabato that brought flood in the surrounding community. He received several awards for the documentaries he made for the show, including the 1998 CNN Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheche Lazaro
Cecilia "Cheche" Aldaba Lim-Lázaro (born September 8, 1945, in Los Angeles, California), is an acclaimed Filipino broadcast journalist and the founding President of Probe Productions Inc. as well as an Editor-at-Large of online news website Rappler. Profile The eldest of six children, Cecilia "Cheche" Aldaba Lim, was born to Luis Lim, an engineer, and Estefania Aldaba-Lim, a psychologist and former secretary of Department of Social Welfare and Development. She was born September 8, 1945, in the US but decided to give up her US citizenship and chose to be legally Filipina when she applied for a scholarship for a master's degree in radio and television from the University of Michigan. In 1966, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in speech and drama at the University of the Philippines Diliman. She continued her studies at the University of Michigan and obtained her master's degree in radio-television in 1968. She has been married to Filipino businessman Delfin Lázaro fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Morales
Victoria "Vicky" Torres Morales-Reyno (; born July 10, 1969) is a broadcast journalist from the Philippines. She is best known for being one of the anchors of GMA Network's early evening newscast ''24 Oras'' with Mike Enriquez and Mel Tiangco as well as for being the host of the Saturday afternoon documentary-drama show ''Wish Ko Lang!'' For hosting ''Wish Ko Lang!'', she got the "Best Public Service Program Host" award during the 29th PMPC Star Awards for Television in 2015 given by the Philippine Movie Press Club. She previously anchored ''Saksi'', the late news program of GMA Network, from 1999 to 2014. In GTV, she hosts a magazine news program entitled ''Good News Kasama si Vicky Morales'', which was started in 2011 when GTV was previously known as GMA News TV. Aside from receiving an award from PMPC, she received different accolades from other local awards including Catholic Mass Media Awards, UP Gandingan, USTv Awards, Gawad Tanglaw, Northwest Samar State University Stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14th PMPC Star Awards For Television
The 14th PMPC Star Awards for Television was held at the UP Theater, Quezon City on October 7, 2000 and was broadcast on RPN Channel 9 on Saturday Night Playhouse. The awards night was hosted by Pops Fernandez, Troy Montero, Dingdong Dantes, Ralion Alonzo and Kris Aquino and was directed by Al Quinn. Awards Nominees and winners Special awards Most major wins Performers *Janno Gibbs *Ogie Alcasid *Michael V. *Keempee de Leon *Ai-Ai delas Alas Martina Eileen Hernandez delas Alas-Sibayan (born November 11, 1964), known professionally as Ai-Ai delas Alas, is a Filipino actress and comedian. She is widely regarded as the country's "Queen of Comedy" for her comedic talent and best know ... References External links {{PMPC Star Awards for TV by Year PMPC Star Awards for Television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
